The Egyptians had a Arab Spring that turned into a Revolution! And they thought they won it! And they were ecstatic, and they celebrated! But suddenly the revolution vanished! And it looks
now that the Revolution was like a magician’s trick: “Now you see it; Now you don’t!” What happened? Well, the Revolution was hijacked, by the Egyptian Army, under a U.S. demand to
contain the damage to the U.S. interests in Middle East.

Former president Hosni Mubarak had pledged not to resign during the massive continuous protests, and the U.S. was fearful that there may be a military coup by lower officers, the so-called Naserites, as it happened in 1953 under Gamal Abdel Nasser. To prevent this, the U.S. ordered the Egyptian General to overthrow Mubarak. Mubarak was then shown on TV moody while he was escorted to a military helicopter under guard to be put under house arrest in his Sinai vacation home. Then his VP Omar Suleiman went on TV to tell Egyptians that Mubarak had resigned. He didn’t, but the military junta told Mubarak to keep quiet, or go to prison for life. Mubarak did, there was a short farcical trial, and Mubarak lives now untouched in splendor at his Sinai villa!

Why did the Egyptian Generals take orders from the U.S.? a) Without U.S. arms, supplies, funding and spare parts, the Egyptian army will be strip-naked! b) U.S. aid has helped the Egyptian Generals to control a vast array of industries that experts estimate as 20% of the Egyptian economy. That makes them as rich as the Saudi princess, courtesy of their relations and subservience to the U.S. Can they do without the U.S. arms and money? NO! They have little oil and natural gas. They are as dependent to the U.S. as the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai is, except they don’t have a Taliban insurgency to deal with!

When the U.S. ordered the Egyptian junta to overthrow Mubarak, the U.S. also initiated other plans “to stabilize Egypt,” a euphemism for subverting the revolution and maintaining the status quo. Immediately, the U.S. Congress appropriated plenty of $$$$ millions to fund NGO’s, like the International Republican Institute, NDI, Freedom House, and in synch with other European NGOs, they set the stage to corral the Egyptian Revolution. When some Egyptians started to wonder why no foreign NGOs came to promote democracy during Mubarak’s 30 years of despotic rule, and now they flooded Egypt, the Egyptian Generals arrested Sam LaHood, the son of the U.S. Transportation Secretary, in a smokescreen effort to show Egyptians that foreigners will not design Egypt’s future! But they will.

With plenty of U.S. money and NGOs, and with the full support of the Egyptian military junta, the former Mubarak prime minister Ahmed Shafik has risen to the top. The U.S. just flipped the Egyptian Revolution like a coin; the Mubarak side went down; the Shafik side came up. Bet won. The ultimate goal? Prevent Egypt from becoming an Islamic Republic like Iran!

The U.S. effort to hijack the Egyptian Revolution is the second, after a similar effort to hijack the Libyan Revolution by forcing the Transitional National Council to appoint two U.S. citizens and Libyan expatriates, Mahmud Jibril, as prime minister, and Khalifa Hiftar as Supreme Commander of the New Libyan Army. They were fired after I exposed them here in my December 11, 2011, blog here, and then the Radio 17 in Libya posted my blog on its website, on Facebook, and other Arab newspapers. Afterward, Libyan rebel commanders demanded their firing from the TNC, and Abdel Hakim Belhai, the Libyan rebel commander who took Tripoli from Gadhagi’s forces, and who claim to have been tortured by the CIA in Bangkok, Thailand, run a gun battle with Khalifa Hiftar when he tried to take control of Tripoli’s airport. Belhai demanded the dismissal of Hiftar, and the TNC obliged.

There are no rebel commanders in Egypt to save the revolution, as Egypt’s military commanders removed Mubarak and took control of it themselves! The Egyptians now fume against their junta, but the junta is crashing their skulls under the pretext of stability! General Hussein Tantawi is the new U.S. Augusto Pinochet in Cairo, and the U.S. choice for Egyptian president is Ahmed Shafik!

During the Serbia-Kosovo conflict, U.S. senator John McCain told reporters: “We (the U.S.) are a superpower; we cannot lose!,” on quote. The U.S. “cannot lose” in Egypt either! It has Egypt’s military in a chock-hold, and the Egyptian military has the Revolution in a chock-hold! Nikos Retsos, retired professor, USA

Nato leaders are meeting today in Chicago to design an exit from Afghanistan. That is the facade of the meeting. But behind the facade lies the wounded U.S. superpower bravado reminiscent of the Vietnam War era.

The meeting in Chicago is held to devise a “face-saving” way out by funding a 350.000 Afghan army to cover their backs as they run through the exit! For reference, a similar U.S. trained and funded 600.000 South Vietnamese army collapsed or joined the rebels within 48 hours when the U.S. withdrawal began. A similar replay in Afghanistan is certain. The U.S. Defense Secretary during the Vietnam War, the late Robert McNamara, admitted after the war: “We didn’t understand that war, and we didn’t see it coming,” on quote! Does Nato? It doesn’t really matter. Nato countries are just U.S. vassals, in the opinion of Russian president Vladimir Putin!

It is every man for himself in Greece nowadays. After the May 6, 2012 election that busted the two main political parties that have governed Greece for almost half a century, the Greek vote fractured and spread wildly among various smaller Greek parties. The New Democracy (ND) and PASOK could not master a parliamentary majority to form a coalition government, and the smaller parties that saw them in the ropes would rather have another election to knock them out, and then govern with them sitting in the back benches! An opinion poll on May 12, 2012, shows that the Radical Left (RL) coalition would get 28% of the vote, and 128 seats in the parliament in an upcoming June election! (Associate Press, May 12, 2012)

What does this mean? It means that the ND and Pasok that supported the European austerity measures may not be able to save… Read more

I struggle this morning to find some information about Bahrain’s dissident Abdulhadi al-Khawaja’s hunger strike on the Google news home-page, and there is nothing here. I know the page is refreshing electronically, and something may show up later. By contrast, Ukraine’s Yulia Timoshenko’s hunger strike is not only present, but the Yulia Timoshenko name is also pinned on Google’s upper left side of the home-page along with the other 10 top world “Top Stories!” Why is Yulia’s name displayed permanently as a top story of global importance, while the Abdulhadi al-Khawaja’s is either not displayed at all, or it is recycled in-and-out of the news?

Well, Google is part of the U.S. global media empire, and as such it must project the news that support the U.S. policy, while avoid or minimize news that confer a negative view of the U.S. to its global readers. It is a finesse… Read more